Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4050, William Ginnings, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Ginnings, William
PR. 4050
Son of Joshua
CONTENTS

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Commissioners of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

June 15 1850 Eliza Francis Shultz Late Eliza F. Ginnings
West Union Adams County Ohio to your honour Mr Holmes was received your letter three years since Thomas W Ginnings who wrote to you is dead and I think it my Duty to inform the Department that I am an heir to the pension of William Ginnings who served time under general George Washington his father Ginnings came from England when a young man was married to Francis Perry of Virginia William Ginnings who was killed for his grand father in England was 18 years of age when Ginnings was called to the war of Revolution Wm Ginnings made an agreement with the officers to take him instead of his father and they did and this was the reason he did not gain his pension when he applied for it in 1818 William Ginnings was born February 2 and was married to Betsy West January 1 1763 Shortly after his return to Virginia he 1783 moved to Kentucky lived there some years and came into Ohio with Simon Kenton when the indians inhabited this country and William Ginnings was shot through the calf of his leg while shooting a Washington horse horse when he had not time to dismount but they are all dead and I am one of three heirs which is left of Wm Ginnings deceased near West Union
Eliza F Shultz Adams County Ohio

32.855
William Jennings Ohio
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State of Ohio } Adams County } ss
On this 24 th day of October 1834, personally appeared in open court, before the Honorable John W. Price, President of the fifth Judicial Circuit Robert Morrison Samuel M c Clanahan of William Robbins, Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Adams aforesaid now sitting William Ginnings a resident of Piffin Township in the County of Adams and State of Ohio, aged seventy two years on the 22 d day of February last who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 That he made the declaration of the United States, under oath, stating names of officers and served as herein stated first his Father Sarker Ginnings attendant a Volunteer in the Revolutionary War to perform a Term of Two months in the month of September in the year 1779 That this deponent went out as a substitute in the room of his said Father to perform the Term aforesaid that at the time he entered him- res a substitute as aforesaid he resided in Stafford County in the State of Virginia that in the month of September in the year 1779 he marched from Stafford County aforesaid to Fredericksburgh and joined the Army of the United States at the Rappahannan Forge to prevent the British from taking the Armory then at that place - That Genl. Weed commanded the detachment that the Captain who commanded the Company in which he marched from Stafford County was Capt Hood but after arriving at Fredericksburgh he was attached to an other Company - That during this tour the Company to which he was attached was marched twice to Williamsburg & back again That the detachment in which he served was commanded entirely by Militia Officers

That after serving the said two months tour the Company to which he belonged were discharged by giving the Captain of the Company Credit for a tour of duty but that this deponent did not receive a written discharge - He then returned home - That a few weeks weeks say about three, after his return home he was drafted and attached to Capt Ballard's Company & marched to the Potomac to meet the British at the time they destroyed Brant's property - This detachment was commanded by Genl. Col? Garrett, who afterwards was Governor of the state of Kentucky - That after serving a two month tour th he with the company received a Credit for a two months tour & were dismissed the service without receiving written discharges -
That in the month of July 1780 (he still residing in Stafford County Vir g a ) he was drafted for two months tour and marched under Captain Reed to Port royall to defend it from an attack which it was reported the British were about to make on it that after remaining there he and the company were credited for a two months tour and dismissed the service of the United States without any written discharge - That in the month of July 1781 his father the said Joshua Ginnings was drafted in Culpepper County in the state of Virginia for a two months tour and he went out as a substitute for his father & marched from Culpepper County aforesaid in the Company commanded by Captain Miles - the detachment was commanded by Genl. Stevens - to be marched to Albamall to repel an attack which the British were about to make on that place and when within about three quarters of a mile of Albamall the detachment were ordered to march to York town and when

arrived at York Town Cornwallis was besieged in it - he continued there at the siege until the time of his su- bstitute for whom he was a substitute had expired
The Class of the Company to which he belonged in Stafford County was drafted and arrived at York Town, he belonging to the same Class was of course drafted and being then at the siege of York was joined to his Class and continued there till Corn- wallis Surrendered - after which he was was one of the Militia troops who guarded the Prisoners from York Town to Winchester Barracks when he was discharged from the service of the United States after having performed a tour of four months including the last two months he served as a substitute for his father - He does not now re- collect by whom his discharge was signed - About thirty years ago his shop was burnt and his discharge with other Valuable papers were consumed by fire
It should be understood that during the siege at York he served in the Artillery from the day after he joined the Troops till the surren- der of Cornwallis and had the mortification of seeing many of his fellow soldiers killed by his side or near to him - That he was part of was the army to whom the British Army surrendered
Interrogatories to be answered by William Ginnings
1 st When & in what year were you born?
Answer I was born on the Piguet ridge in Culpeper county in the state of Virginia in the year 1762 as I have been informed by my Parents
2 Have you any record of your age; and if so where is it?

My age is recorded in my Bible and that is at my house
3 d When were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and Where do you now live?
When first called into the service of the United States I lived in Stafford County Virginia afterwards in Gulpepper County - After the revolutionary war lived two years in Gulpepper County after which I lived Eight or years in Kentucky and while living there it is believed I killed several Indians - I have lived in this County about thirty three years and now live in it -
4 th How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom?
I was a substitute two times for my father Joshua Ginnings - the other time I served as drafted
5 State the names of some of the regular officers who were with troops when you served; such as con- tinental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
At the time of service I knew many of the names of the Officers of the Continental & Militia troops but the time since is long & I am old & infirm & cannot at this time recollect any other names than those mentioned in the foregoing declaration
6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
I received a discharge when dismissed from the

Service of the United States at Winchester Barracks but can not at this time recollect by whom it was given - it was burnt in my shop many years since
I state the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
I state the names of Judge Dinning John Wardridge Jacob Jacob Dreher Hemplman, John Killin Wesley Leet, Abraham Hollingsworth
William Ginnings
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
Sworn to, and subscribed } William Ginnings the day and year aforesaid
Joseph Darlington Clk. A.C.
We John Killin & Ellis Palmer residing in the County of Adams and State of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Ginnings who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two years of age; and that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to, and subscribed } John Killin the day and year aforesaid } Ellis his Palmer mark
Joseph Darlington Clk. A.C.
And the said Court do hereby declare their

Opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and bears as the states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that John Killin and Ellis Parmer who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the County of Adams aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit (and that no clergyman resides in the immediate neighborhood of the said William Ginnings
Joseph Darlington Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Adams and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Ginnings for a pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said my Office this 24th day of October AD 1834
Joseph Darlington Clerk H.C.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
4050.
P. O. _____
Sam Jennings
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Suspended
See letter to Jos. Darlington Clerk of Adams Co;
West Union Ohio Let Hon. L. D. Morris 10 th April 1850
13. March 1835
Let Hon. E. H. Shultz,
July 9 1850

House of Reps.
July 26. 1850
Sir,
You will please find a letter desiring information as to William Ginnings a Soldier of the Revolutionary war. Please answer as soon as you conveniently can, and return me the letter inclosed
Respectfully yours J. D. Morris
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions

West Union Oct 30
France
Pension Off
Hon Louis Café Secretary of War Washington City D.C.
Ohio Nov 5 Mr. Jennings Nov. 5. 1832 Union Office